Stick file



J. H. MILLING.

STICK FILE.

APPLICATION FILED APR; 18, 1922.

Patented Dec. 12, 1922;

Patented B ee. l2, i922.

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Application filed April 18, 1922. Serial No. 554,510.

To all'whomt't may concern: I

Be it known that I, JAMns H. h/IILLING,

a citizen of the United States, residing at from the file particularly by the wind or blasts oi? air from an adjacent fan.

.Prnother object is to provide a means which is yieldable relatively tothe point of the file to permit attachment of papers or the like and which is held relatively close thereto by gravity in order to prevent normal removal of said papers or the like.

A still further object is to provide such a file with a stick member and an armor bracket to coact therewith having means suspended therefrom to prevent removatof papers or the like normally from the stick member in combination with means on said arm to maintain the first mentioned means inactive at desirable times.

Additional objects and. advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accmn mnying drawings illustrating one practical embodiment.

in said drawings The figure is in perspective.

Referring specifically to said figure, an upright rod, spike or file is shown at 10, sharpened at its upper end as usual, and

adapted to receive papers or the like thereon as usual.

Cooperating with the stick file 10 is an upstanding arm or bracket 11, its upper portion being deflected toward the file 10 as at 12 and its upper terminal being shaped lnto an eyelet at 13.

The file l0 and bracket ll may be mounted or supported in any desired way or manner. As shown, they extend from a base 14 of any suitable size or configuration or material, the base preferably being weighted.

Adjacent the penetrating or upper'end of the file 10 a weight or bob l0 is disposed, being suspended from the eyelet 13 as by means of a link to and in turn pivotally connected to the bob as at an eyelet l7 onthe hob and an eyelet 18 on thelink.

It will be realized that as the bob 15 is disposed adjacent the upper end of the stick file 10, papers or the like cannot readily be displaced or blown off of the file 10 by means of wind or blasts of air as from an adjacent fan, since in upright movement of the papers along the file they will engage the bob or link and thus be prevented from movement off of the free end of the file 10.

A hook or supporting element 19 is secured to the bracket .11 and as shown in clotted lines in Figure 1, the link 16 may be moved into engagement therewith so that the same will be free of the penetrating end of the file l0 and will not obstruct the application 01 therefrom.

Particular attention is directed to the fact that the protecting hob and link are movable by urgency of papers or the like thereagainst to attach them to file 10, thus avoiding a separate step of displacing means to permit attachment of papers.

As merely one practical embodiment has been illustrated and,described, it is to be understood that changes in the details may be resorted to prm-ided they fall witl'iin the spirit and scopc o'l the ll'lVGlltlOll.

I claim as my invention 1- 1. A stick file having a file member, an

papers or the like thereto or upstanding bracket at its upper portion be ing deflected toward and terminating substantially over and above the filemember, and means extending from and having substantially universal movement from said bracket disposed ad acent the free end of said member to resistter therefrom.

2. A stick file having a base, a file mem ber rising from said base, a bracket rising from said base having its upper portion deflected toward the file member and terminating in an eyelet above said member, a link suspended by and having substantially imiversal connection from said eyelet, a bob removal of filed mat- 16 pivotally connected therei gageable by said link.

filed matter therefrom, and a detent means on the deflected portion of the bracket en- Abill'file comprising an im palingxpin, bracket extending beyond the free end of the iinpaiing'pin, a guard removably en-' gaging, over the f eeend of the impahng pin, and means for suspending this guard 1C from and for substantially universaimove ment relatively to the bracket. In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES MILLING. W'itnesses:

" WV. B. CURTIS,

H. H. McVV IRTER. 

